Elfman
Quartetto Klimt

Quartetto Klimt

Duccio Ceccanti, violin
Margherita Di Giovanni, viola
Jacopo Di Tonno, cello
Matteo Fossi, piano

D. Elfman (1953)

Piano Quartet

25’ | Admission €10

Within the Discover series, the Quartetto Klimt guides the audience in exploring a lesser-known and surprisingly intimate side of Danny Elfman. Best known for his iconic Hollywood film scores — particularly his long-standing collaboration with Tim Burton — Elfman reveals, in his Piano Quartet, an intense and refined chamber writing, capable of preserving all his unmistakable expressive identity.

The piece is marked by driving rhythms, harmonic tensions, and subtly unsettling atmospheres, characteristic elements of the composer’s language which, stripped of the spectacular dimension of cinema and orchestra, acquire here a new transparency and an even more direct expressive force. The musicians of the Quartetto Klimt approach this score with great technical solidity and an almost “rock-like” energy, combining interpretative precision with communicative drive. The result is a lively and engaging reading, capable of restoring Elfman’s place within the chamber repertoire without renouncing the freshness and immediacy of his language.

In the evocative setting of the Hall of Tapestries, music thus becomes a meeting point between seemingly distant worlds: the memory of tradition and contemporary sonic imagination intertwine in an intense and unexpected experience.

Text by Valeria Del Giorno